EDC 102 - Introduction to American Education

Agenda: Class 5 : Savage Inequalities Revisited

• Due Today:
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Objectives/Learning Goals

• Learn to use some online tools that might come in handy in this class and others:
  • Zotero - A bibliography manager that works in the Firefox browser.
  • Google Docs - an online word processor that allows simultaneous editing.
  • Wikispaces - a wiki that allows authors to create media rich wiki pages.
  • Engrade - an online gradebook that you can use to monitor your progress in this class.
• Relate Kozol's Savage Inequalities to how we might investigate local schools.

Instructional Activities

• Demonstration: Using Zotero with URL Library Database
• Small group discussion: Savage Inequalities
• Report out from our groups.
• Preview: Look over last year's context reports and begin to think of what school you will write your report on.

Homework

• Due Monday:
• Reading Quiz: FAE Ch 2